BRUSSELS. Officials from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and ambassadors to the European Union (EU) plus EU transport ministers recently signed amendments to two U.S.-EU agreements that will expand joint efforts on aviation safety and air-traffic management harmonization.

DALLAS. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), have announced a Request for Information (RFI) on traffic-management systems for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

MELBOURNE, Fla. Veritas Capital and Harris Corp. officials have entered into an agreement, in which Veritas Capital will acquire Harris' government IT services business for $690 million in cash. The transaction is subject to regulatory review and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close before the end of fiscal 2017.

LONDON. BAE Systems has finished installing the Artisan 3-D radar system onto the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the future aircraft carrier for the Royal navy. Installation took place late September taking the naval ship a step closer to sea trials.

Qualified tools can cut software development costs, improve a company's responsiveness and ensure high integrity for airborne software subject to DO-178B. Esterel Technologies' safety manager, Jean-Louis Camus, analyzes how the soon to be finalized DO-178C update may leverage benefits of model-based development with qualified tools.